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Old 03-03-2003, 01:00 PM   #1
SLaCk_KiD
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X is hanging


Hey everyone, I just reinstalled slack AGAIN, and everything seemed to be working correctly, but X wouldnt startup. I tried to run XF86Config, as root of course, and bash gave me an error saying that it wasnt a command or directory. So after a few times of this not working corrrectly, i coulndt figure out how to configure X, i tried editing it and no luck, so i reinstalled thinking that maybe something was corrupt during the install.

I get it up and running, and at the command line, and try XF86Config, and it worked, ok so far...but then, i type startx and and it starts to load KDE, but it just hangs at a grey screen, and the mouse pointer is an X. and nothing happens. I exit out with alt+ctrl+backspace, and look at my log, and it doesnt say anything errored.... I am puzzled.

If anyojne has any suggestions, please feel free to let me know, i wanna get this up running, and not worry about configuration for a while, just sit back and enjoy slack...THANKS
 
Old 03-03-2003, 03:38 PM   #2
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Its trying to load using the default XF86Config file. You need to run xf86config to configure X. Note: Its all lowercase, uppercase is the actual file it writes to or creates after creating using the xf86config command.
 
  


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